La Grange, Kentucky is the birthplace of ("The Father of the Motion Picture Industry") David Llewelyn Wark Griffith. Whenever filmmakers visit La Grange, Kentucky, it is a tradition for them to visit his grave site in Centerfield, Kentucky at the Mount Tabor Cemetery, which is just a few miles south of La Grange.
At the beginning of the movie, just before Jason gets the call from Ted, you see an American Girl doll on the kitchen counter. That doll is Kit Kittredge. Abigail Breslin who played Emily in The Ultimate Gift, plays Kit Kittredge in the American Girl Doll movie.
La Grange, Kentucky was established in the late 1700s and it has shared being the County Seat of Oldham County, twice. Originally, it was Westport as that is the access point to the Ohio River as well as historically, there had been a ferryboat that would cross the river to southern Indiana. Then due to the flooding issues, the County seat was moved uphill to La Grange, then back to Westport; and then back up to La Grange where it has remained ever-since then. One of the reasons for it moving up was the flooding, but as human and commercial travel got away from riverboats to railroads, the railroad and interurban railroad arrived in La Grange. During the production process of the film, the trains moving through Main Street would force brief pauses in the production to avoid having the noise of the train impacting the sound or distracting the cast and crew. La Grange is on a couple of Kentucky highways and then the U.S. Interstate I-71. The city appears (on Main Street), to be stuck in the 1800s, but it is very much a modern city with great accessibility for major motion pictures and other industries.
The birthplace home of ("The Father of the Motion Picture Industry") David Llewelyn Wark Griffith is in La Grange, KY and it is still owned as a residence at 206 Fourth Avenue, La Grange, KY.
If you look very closely at the funeral scene, you will see a brown complexion male, Arvin G. Borkar, with black hair, wearing a black suit. He also was a stand-in for Myko Olivier.